The Zend Framework team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the 1.8.4 release. This release is the fourth maintenance release in the 1.8 series. Over 50 issues have been resolved for this release, covering 20 different components. […]

The Zend Framework team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the 1.8.2 release. This release is the second maintenance release in the 1.8 series. Fixes for this release focus on Zend_Db and autoloading improvements. In all, over 50 issues were closed for the release. You may download it from the Zend Framework site. […]

The Zend Framework team is happy to announce the immediate availability of Zend Framework 1.8.1, the first maintenance release in the 1.8 series. You can download it via our downloads page; Use the CDN link for fast downloads, or scroll down the page for direct downloads of the 1.8.1 packages from the ZF servers. […]

In this article, I'll discuss the development and features of Zend_Loader_Autoloader and its related functionality. However, the main point of the article is to show the various concerns and design decisions that go into developing a comprehensive autoloading solution for your PHP applications. Autoloading, while seemingly a trivial optimization task, has many facets that are often overlooked. […]

I'm pleased to announce the Zend Framework 1.8.0 release, the first in our 1.8 series of releases. This release marks the culmination of several long-standing projects, as well as a formalization of many of our recommended practices. There are two major stories in this release: first, the addition of several components designed to provide and promote Rapid Application Development; second, two offerings that make using Zend Framework in the cloud easier. […]

The Zend Framework team is excited to announce a partnership between Dojo and Zend Framework. The goal is to deliver an out-of-the-box solution for building Ajax-based Web applications with Zend Framework. This is mainly targeted at users who rely on us to provide them with a best practice and an out-of-the-box experience for Ajax and don't want to have to deal with evaluating a solution (e.g. toolkits, licenses, etc.). Below is an FAQ which sheds some more light on this announcement: […]

The Zend Framework team has just completed a reorganization of our subversion repository. The reorganization was necessary due to changes we are introducting both in our proposal system as well as project architecture. Specifically, we are introducing a new library, our 'Extras' library, which will contain contributions that are not officially supported by Zend but which still require successful completion of our proposal process. Additionally, we are merging our Laboratory repository. Instructions on how to update your working checkouts or svn:externals pointers are included in this article. […]

Zend_Form has been lauded by many as a welcome addition to Zend Framework, and a flexible solution to the problem of forms. That said, one point of flexibility it offers has proved to be a pain point for many developers: decorators. This tutorial aims to shed some light on decorators, as well as provide strategies for creating your own decorators and combining them in creative ways to customize the output your forms generate. […]

Views in MVC are allowed to communicate with the Model (using read-only operations), and are allowed to perform display-related logic. That said, how do you actually access the model? And what if you have some fairly complex logic that you may need to repeat, or which you may not want to display directly in the view in order to keep it clean and easy to read? In Zend Framework, the answer is to use View Helpers. […]

Like Action Helpers, which I've discussed in a previous article, Front Controller Plugins in Zend Framework are often considered an esoteric, advanced subject. They are, however, remarkably simple to implement, and provide an easy way to extend the functionality and behavior of your entire web application. […]